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wifi: ath9k: work around memset overflow warning
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gcc-9 and some other older versions produce a false-positive warning
for zeroing two fields

In file included from include/linux/string.h:369,
                 from drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c:18:
In function 'fortify_memset_chk',
    inlined from 'ath9k_ps_wakeup' at drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c:140:3:
include/linux/fortify-string.h:462:25: error: call to '__write_overflow_field' declared with attribute warning: detected write beyond size of field (1st parameter); maybe use struct_group()? [-Werror=attribute-warning]
  462 |                         __write_overflow_field(p_size_field, size);
      |                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Using a struct_group seems to reliably avoid the warning and
not make the code much uglier. The combined memset() should even
save a couple of cpu cycles.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <[email protected]>
Link: https://msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
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arndb authored and gregkh committed Jun 27, 2024
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6 changes: 4 additions & 2 deletions drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath.h
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Expand Up @@ -171,8 +171,10 @@ struct ath_common {
unsigned int clockrate;

spinlock_t cc_lock;
struct ath_cycle_counters cc_ani;
struct ath_cycle_counters cc_survey;
struct_group(cc,
struct ath_cycle_counters cc_ani;
struct ath_cycle_counters cc_survey;
);

struct ath_regulatory regulatory;
struct ath_regulatory reg_world_copy;
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3 changes: 1 addition & 2 deletions drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c
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Expand Up @@ -135,8 +135,7 @@ void ath9k_ps_wakeup(struct ath_softc *sc)
if (power_mode != ATH9K_PM_AWAKE) {
spin_lock(&common->cc_lock);
ath_hw_cycle_counters_update(common);
memset(&common->cc_survey, 0, sizeof(common->cc_survey));
memset(&common->cc_ani, 0, sizeof(common->cc_ani));
memset(&common->cc, 0, sizeof(common->cc));
spin_unlock(&common->cc_lock);
}

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